Dive summary:

• Landfill workers in Pierce County, Washington help identify and catch a man who dropped off boxes of child pornography.
• The workers were able to tell authorities what kind of truck brought in the material and when they found the man they were able to link the boxes to his brother-in-law.
• Police used DNA evidence and fingerprints to confirm it was the brother-in-law.

From the article:

Pierce County Prosecutors charged Ernest Sanchez with possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct Thursday in Pierce County Superior Court. Sanchez has not been arrested, and is scheduled to be arraigned on May 21.

Workers at the Tacoma City Dump uncovered multiple boxes of child pornography, cartoons and hard drives containing explicit material on March 8 and called police. The workers were able to describe the truck and transcribe the license plate of the man that dropped off the boxes, and detectives went to his home. The man said he dumped the boxes for his brother-in-law. ...